Ministry of Inspection and UNDP discuss new training courses
The Ministry of Inspection announced a meeting between the Minister of Inspection Huot Hak and alissar Chaker, Country Representative of the United Nations Development Program in Cambodia (UNDP Cambodia) on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-inspection-and-undp-discuss-new-training-courses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501399963/ministry-of-inspection-and-undp-discuss-new-training-courses/
Cambodia’s exports to RCEP countries rise 23% to $5.8B
Cambodia’s exports to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries continued to increase, indicating the emergence of a growing market for the country’s products. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-exports-to-rcep-countries-rise-23-to-5-8b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501382492/cambodias-exports-to-rcep-countries-rise-23-to-5-8b/
Sihanoukville businesses want beach ban revoked
Dozens of businesses from Sihanoukville’s Otres beach will deliver a letter to the National assembly today seeking intervention on a government order to vacate the beach or be forcibly evicted. X Otres BeachX Yun Min <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-businesses-want-beach-ban-revoked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-businesses-want-beach-ban-revoked
Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Cambodia
![COVID-19 Slider](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/covid19-new-slider-150x150.png)
Based on the available data and information released by the Ministry of Health of Cambodia, ODC has recently been collecting and has published a new dataset, interactive map layer and profile page of the “COVID-19” cases found in Cambodia. This new COVID-19 dashboard and dataset <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/fa_slide/happy-new-year-2019/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Four face charges in incitement case
Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday summonsed three well-known rights workers and a journalist to appear for questioning next week over years-old incitement charges in connection with a long-standing land dispute. In a summons signed by deputy provincial prosecutor Chea Sopheak, the court ordered Radio Free asia journalist Sok Ratha, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-face-charges-in-incitement-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Warrant sought for shooter
The Ministry of Interior has sought a warrant for the suspect who shot three people at a protest outside a shoe factory last week amid more allegations from government and police officials that the perpetrator was Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/warrant-sought-for-shooter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012030154802/National-news/warrant-sought-for-shooter.html
Officials cheated me: farmer
A cAssAvA grower in Siem ReAp’s Srei Snom district hAs Accused A district police chief And A deputy commune chief of cheAting him out of his lAnd After they doctored the grower’s testimony in A court cAse. Em SocheAt, A lAwyer for lAnd owner Yem SAvuth, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAls-cheAted-me-fArmer/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090458481/National-news/officials-cheated-me-farmer.html
Thai condo collapse kills 3 Cambodian migrants
At leAst six people, including three CAmbodiAn migrAnt workers, were killed lAte on MondAy when A condominium construction project north of BAngkok collApsed, According to news reports, officiAls And witnesses At the scene. Twenty-four people, At leAst one of whom is CAmbodiAn, were Also injured in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-condo-collApse-kills-3-cAmbodiAn-migrAnts/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Vong Sokheng and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-condo-collapse-kills-3-cambodian-migrants
Report slams Boeung Kak 13 sentencing
The 13 Boeung Kak lake women imprisoned after a three-hour trial on May 24 were tried unjustly on charges that had no basis, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights report released yesterday. Ou Virak said the women’s sentencing, which came two days after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-slams-boeung-kak-13-sentencing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Environment plan passes unopposed
In a sitting of parliament yesterday that was rather more subdued than the vicious session that led to an opposition walkout a day earlier, a law to support an environmental program passed with bipartisan support. all but two of the 93 legislat-ors present voted in favour <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-plan-passes-unopposed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tourists flock to amazing Angkor Botanical Garden
More and more tourists have flocked into angkor Botanical Garden in Siem Reap province after the official inauguration last week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourists-flock-to-amazing-angkor-botanical-garden/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501081095/tourists-flock-to-amazing-angkor-botanical-garden/
PMs Modi and Hun Sen discuss range of bilateral issues online
In an effort to boost bilateral ties between Cambodia and India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to Prime Minister Hun Sen and held a virtual meeting yesterday, according to a press release issued by the Embassy of India in Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pms-modi-and-hun-sen-discuss-range-of-bilateral-issues-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501077942/pms-modi-and-hun-sen-discuss-range-of-bilateral-issues-online/
Cambodia-China trade continues to grow despite global demand slowdown
Cambodia-China trade continued to rise in 2023 despite a slowdown in global demand, thanks to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and the Cambodia-China Free Trade agreement (CCFTa), a commerce official and experts said on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-china-trade-continues-to-grow-despite-global-demand-slowdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501422036/cambodia-china-trade-continues-to-grow-despite-global-demand-slowdown/
NGO’s democracy training session shut down
A teAm of security officiAls led by A commune chief descended on A privAte home in rurAl Koh Kong province on FridAy morning to prevent A group of students And Activists from holding A democrAcy trAining session, An Activist And officiAls sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-democrAcy-trAining-session-shut-down/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-democracy-training-session-shut-down-98181/
South Korean firm faces off with tycoon Kok An over land
A group of South KoreAns And CAmbodiAns employed by A KoreAn developer fAced off with An excAvAtor And A bulldozer cleAring lAnd for A weAlthy locAl businessmAn in A dispute over 6 hectAres of lAnd in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/south-koreAn-firm-fAces-off-with-tycoon-kok-An-over-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-firm-faces-off-with-tycoon-kok-an-over-land-94483/
Business group airs union law concerns
Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns-105839/
Interior Ministry investigates forgery
The Immigration Department at the Interior Ministry has put in a request to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into a commune chief who allegedly forged a birth certificate for a Chinese national in exchange for $12,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32060/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/
Victory claimed in land dispute
More than a month after halting construction around a disputed land concession in Ratanakkiri province, a Vietnam-based company has reportedly gone a step further and agreed to return 30 hectares of razed forest, a village representative and commune chief maintained yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victory-claimed-in-land-dispute-with-vietnamese-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/victory-claimed-land-dispute
Police find cannabis in high place
A joint force of locAl And provinciAl police in KAmpot on FridAy burned down more thAn 1,000 mArijuAnA plAnts growing on the side of A mountAin, According to An officiAl involved in the operAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-find-cAnnAbis-in-high-plAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-find-cannabis-high-place
Working group minimum wage vote due wednesday
A group of union leAders, fActory owners And government representAtives set up to negotiAte A recommendAtion for A new minimum wAge in the gArment sector is due to meet WednesdAy for A vote on A finAl figure, According to those involved in the tAlks. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/working-group-minimum-wAge-vote-due-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/working-group-minimum-wage-vote-due-wednesday-71335/